Comments | fox1013: mockingbird (i'm not afraid)

fox1013

mockingbird (i'm not afraid)

Mar 25, 2007 13:52

Sometimes when I read (or, in this case, reread) a good book, I feel the need to post about it. Because people who aren't me have maybe not read the book, and maybe they'd like to. It feels almost like a responsibility to share that ( Read more... )

lit: to kill a mockingbird

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dagnylilytable March 25 2007, 17:58:48 UTC

You had to quote that, didn't you? Now I am crying! The last parts of that book make me cry and also consider the use of all caps.

Also, *waves* I have hugs if they are welcome, but while I am at it, have an invisible red balloon. *twirls you*

fox1013 March 25 2007, 18:03:43 UTC

I was totally proud of myself for not crying, and then I got to that line.

And then I wasn't not crying anymore.

ATTICUS.

*sniffles*

(and. *snugs* Thank you lots.)

juleskicks March 25 2007, 18:03:51 UTC

OH MY GOD I KNOW. I re-read this on a train a year or so ago and couldn't stop crying. Just. Oh my god, that book will never not get me.

fox1013 March 25 2007, 18:05:10 UTC

It's SUCH A GOOD BOOK.

Like, I don't. I can't even. It makes me feel good about the universe, and people, and literature, and justice, and...

Man. I should reread this more often. I only read it every few years, and EVERY TIME I'm pleasantly surprised at how good it still is.

juliansinger March 25 2007, 18:06:42 UTC

Yes yes yes YES.

God I love that book. (Both read aloud and to myself.)

fox1013 March 25 2007, 18:08:40 UTC

It is the kind of book that gives me faith in people.

I never know quite what to do after readin git. I have all these things I should be doing but right now I'm just basking in the post-reading warmness.

terpsichoreslyr March 25 2007, 18:06:57 UTC

Oh God, I read that book at least once a year. I'm with you. The day it doesn't make me cry... And yes, my eyes are wet just from that one line. I am in Southwest Georgia and I've thought about driving over to Monroeville, Alabama and just haunting the place until I meet Miss Lee. But, I couldn't. She's too private.

fox1013 March 25 2007, 18:11:19 UTC

I really do need to read it more often. I realized about 2/3 of the way through this read that I want this to be one of those books I know so well that I can automatically find a quote without even thinking. I adore it SO MUCH.

In this weird way, I have a hard time thinking of Harper Lee as, like, a person. She seems like she should be... more than a person, somehow.

*still sniffly*

lepapillon March 25 2007, 18:18:00 UTC

SUCH a great story. Beyond. Good line!

fox1013 March 25 2007, 18:20:07 UTC

*still not done crying! STILL!*